Give Roxy a chance at life

Roxy came into our care at 6-months of age, and to our dismay we discovered she had Bilateral Elbow Dysplasia and Mild Hip Dysplasia only a few months later. Fortunately, we had gotten her covered by pet insurance from the day we got her.

Roxy got a Proximal Ulna Osteotomy and fragment removal done on her right elbow on the 1st of October. This surgery was $6588.04. In addition to this, we had to pay $230 for the specialist consult, $481.30 for initial Xray investigations, and we have since been taking her to Physio (alternating weeks by $60 hydrotherapy, and $155 for physio + hydrotherapy). She has just hit the 8-week mark and unfortunately is still incredibly lame.

Follow-up Xrays were done on Friday (28/11) for $405.90 and unfortunately they have shown our baby girl is not healing, as the bone slid too far past where it should be.

Roxy requires a second surgery to put either a plate or a pin in to stabilise the bone and try help it heal. This is the only option for her. Fortunately, the clinic has given us a discount but this will still cost us $3491 for the surgery and we will have ongoing rehab costs. We have unfortunately exhausted $7862.24 of our $10,000 cover. Leaving us with $2137.76. We will require another 12+ weeks of rehab ($1860 minimum), which really leaves us with $277.76. And this is given there are no further complications.

We have gotten to the point where we have needed to reach out for help. We want her to be able to have some chance at a normal life.